Combination pulley, funnel, and stripping-jack.



T. F. HUTGHINGS. COMBINATION PULLBY, FUNNEL, AND STRIPPING JACK. APPLICATION FILED 00T.4, 1910.

1,001,644. Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

WITNESSES 12-7. 5 INVENTOR MW? wad/6 T flesfiam [flak/251195 ATTORNEYS TRESI'IAM F. HUTCHINGS, OF STONY FORD, NEW YORK.

COMBINATION PULLEY, FUNNEL, AND STRIPPING-JACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

Application filed flctober 4, 1910. Serial No. 585,239.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TRESHAM F. HU'roH- lives, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Stony Ford, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved .Combination lulley, Funnel, and Stripping-Jack, oil whichjthe following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The principal object which the present invention has in view is: to provide a device constructed to permit being used as an auxiliary pulley, a funnel for filling a water or gasolene tank, and means for stripping a tightened wheel from the axle bearing.

One embodiment of the present invention is disclosed in the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like .characters denote corresponding parts in all the views and in which- Figure 1 is a vertical cross section of an automobile wheel and the axle thereof, showing a pulley constructed and arranged in accordance with the presentinvention as operatively connected therewith; Fig. 2 is a similar sectional view, showing in connection with the said pulley a screw bolt employed in conjunction with said pulley for stripping the wheel from the axle bearing; Fig. '3 is a vertical cross section of the device, showing the same in position to be' used as a filling funnel Fig. 4: is a detail view. in side'elevation of the bolt used in conjunction witht-he saidpulley when the same is employed as a stripping jack; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation,on an enlarged scale and in detail, of the boring tube for use in conjunction with the pulley when the same is employed as a filling funnel.

The advantage of having an attachment for driving a tool by the power 01",the driving. shaft of an automobile is obvious. In the drawings the hub A of an automobile is mounted on the axle B, which is extended through a sleeve or casing C, the construction being that employed in automobiles of usual or approved type. The hub A is provided with a screw threaded end adapted to receive the screw threaded flange of .a suitable cap nut.

Toplace the pulley 10in operative posi tion the cap nut'with which the hub A is usually provided is removed. The pulley 10 is provided with a cone-like body 11, which converges upon and is fixedly united with the Wrench head of a nut 12. The nut 12 is provided with a threaded flange 13 re sembling the threaded flange with which the cap nut is provided.

The pulley 10 is provided with a face suited to receive a driving belt of any suit able character. Preferably the face is level while the inner edge thereof, or that portion joined to the body 11, is provided with a standing flange 14, the construction and arrangement whereof is adapted to the uses to which the pulley is put.

The drive of the belt employed in conjunction with the pulley 10 is arranged to pull against the thread of the flange 13. That is to say, thepull on the belt will not unwind the flange 13 from the threaded end of the hub A.

When employing the pulley constructed and arranged as described, the rear or driving axle of the machine is jacked up on one side and the motor operated. The diii'erential in the center of the shaft permits the one wheel to remain stationary while the other is driven at the full geared speed.'

When the pulley 10 is not employed in the manner-above described, it is removed from the axle by being unscrewed therefrom, and as a separate tool or article is,

carried-or stored in the bodyof the automobile. It. may then be used as a funnel for filling the gasolene or water tanks. WVhen thus employed the tube 15 is used. The tube 15 is hollow, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and is provided with a screw thread, asshown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. The threads of the tube 15 are pitched to conform with the threaded portions 16 formed in the nut 12. lrVhen the tube 15 is screwed down in position, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, to form a pouring tube for the funnel converted pulley, the end of the said tube projects beyond the lower edge of the flange 13, as shown in the said figure.

When the pulley is employed as a stripping jack for removing the hub A and the wheel connected therewith from the axle bearing B, it is mounted in positionon the said hub, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, much as if the device was going to be used as a pulley. lVhile the pulley is in this position the jack bolt 17 is adjusted thereto, the threaded portion 18 thereoli entering the threaded portion 16 of the nut 12.

By turning up the bolt 17 the point of the tapered end 19 bears against the axle B at the center thereof.

The outer end of the bolt'17 is provided with a wrench head 20, whereby the bolt may be turned up to force the threaded portion 18 through the threaded portion 16 of I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1.-A combination pulley,- funnel and stripping jack,-comprising an vopen ended funnel-like structure having a conical body per-non, and at the one end thereof a cylinducal flange face to receive a driving belt, and having-at the other end thereof means for fixedly mounting the said pulley upon the hub of a driving jwheel.

2. A combination pulley, funnel and stripping jack, comprising an open ended funnel-like structure having a conical bodyportion, .and at the larger end thereof a cylindrical extended flange portion adapted to receive a driving belt, and having at the 'other end thereof a capnut adapted to engage the hub of a driving wheel bythread engagement therewith. v

A combination pulley, funnel and stripping jack, comprising an open ended funnel-like structure having at the one end thereof a cylindrical flange face to receive a' driving belt, and at the other end thereof nut.

a cap nut having an internal screw thread adapted to engage the screw threaded end of a wheel hub, said nut having a central perforation adapted to empty the said fun-- nel-l ike structure.

4. A combination pulley, funnel and stripping jack, comprising an open ended funnel like structure having at the one end thereof a cylindrical flange face to receive a driving belt, and at the other end thereof a, cap nut having an internal screw thread adapted to engage the screw threaded end of a wheel hub, said nut having a central perforation adapted to empty the said funnel-like structure; and a pouring tube adapted'to fitwithin the said perforation.

5. A combination pulley, funnel andstripping jack, comprising a funnel-like structure havinga conical body portion provided at the outer end thereof with a cylindrical pulley portion, said pulley p'ortion being faced to receive a driving belt; a cap nut fixedly connected with said funnel-like structure and having a screw threaded perforation throughthe axial center thereof; and an open ended tube provided with anexternal screw thread to register with the screw thread in said cap In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two' sub-' scribing witnesses. I v

TRESHAM F. HUTOHINGS.

yWitnesses;

HENRY -W. WIGGINS, CHARLES C. REDFIELD.

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